Publications
Publication details [#2243]
Cogen, Cathy and Leora Herrmann. 1975. Interactions of the expression 'Let's just say' with the Gricean maxims of conversation. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 1 : 60–68.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Annotation
The expression 'Let's just say' is described as an explicit marker indicating that in the following stretch of speech a violation of the maxims of conversation is going to occur, and that the violation is meaningful.